core initiatives

Feature Freeze is creeping up on D8 faster than you think, so now's a great time to go check out how to help D8 core development initiatives!

Read all about it here: http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core

That page will tell you:
- what D8 Initiative owners and contributors are up to
- the most important places you can help right now
- thank yous to special snowflakes who have helped
- general information and links for each initiative

Though Initiative Owners are doing a fantastic job of keeping up with their individual initiatives, we've recently heard that the community would like more visibility on D8 progress in general. We've been trying to find the right format and we've got something for you to check out! http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core

The D8 team of Initiative Owners and its supporters want to make it easier for you to find the most important issues to work on, so we've put together a summary page that we'll be updating it every two weeks, and more frequently on an as-needed basis.

We will hold windsprints (mini sprints) each week on IRC in #drupal (on irc.freenode.net).

Timezone conversion: Friday, 17:00 to 19:00 UTC

Objectives

• Bring lessons learned from core mentoring hours to Drupal 8 Core Initiatives.
• Provide a structured time where anyone can contribute to core initiatives.
• Leverage an army of potential contributors who don't know where to start.

The Plan

Notes:

You’ll hear the words “MVP” thrown around a lot in the update this week. It stands for “Minimum Viable Product”, and it’s a way for us to define what “success” means for each initiative. More to come on this later :)

Also, our next meeting isn’t until Dec 8th, so you won’t see an update over the Thanksgiving holidays because a bunch of us are enjoying turkey.

Configuration Management

Greg Dunlap (heyrocker)

Status Amber

Headlines

• Ongoing discussions coming out of BADCamp
• Working on defining the project

Update on this format: NEW! Props section. The Initiative leaders were excited to start saying thank you to people who are going the extra mile. We do want to thank everyone who contributes, and not just these people, we'll be singling you out occasionally for an extra big thanks.

Configuration Management

Greg Dunlap (heyrocker)

Status: Green

Headlines

What this is about:
We've been hearing a lot from the community about wanting more transparency with regard to the Drupal 8 initiatives and their advancement. Every two weeks, the Drupal 8 initiative owners, along with Dries, webchick, and a team of project managers have “scrum of scrum” calls where each person goes around and talks about what they worked on since last time, what they’re going to work on for next time, where they’re blocked, and how the community can help.

What this is about:
We've been hearing a lot from the community about wanting more transparency with regard to the Drupal 8 initiatives and their advancement. Every two weeks, the Drupal 8 initiative owners, along with Dries, webchick, and a team of project managers have “scrum of scrum” calls where each person goes around and talks about what they worked on since last time, what they’re going to work on for next time, where they’re blocked, and how the community can help.